RE: Power triggering

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Remember the Sony remotes....

Simple side....complex side ;-)

Or you could just make simple panels in the Pronto with jump buttons to
the panels that SWMBO uses.

K.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: BUTLER, Tony, FM [mailto:tony.butler@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 February 2002 14:49
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Power triggering
>
> > You are looking at either replacing the current TV remote
> [...]
> > an IR "come out of standby" signal - you say not a
Pronto..... I'm
not
>
> The problem for SWMBO is that with these multi device remotes, you
have to
> select the correct device on the remote, hunt for the button that is
> currently defined as 'on' (or scroll to the panel with the 'on' button
if
> using the pronto), press it, realise you want to watch SKY, switch to
> controlling sky box etc....  far easier (to her) to pick up TV remote
and
> hit the bid reg button, then pick up the Sky remote and hit the 'SKY'
> button
> etc.....
> So it's not that she doesn't like the Pronto per se, she doesn't like
> _any_
> of these multifunction remotes (eg remote angel, one-4-all etc that I
went
> thru before finding pronto).
>
> > What about a bedside timer controller clock with a TV on/ off
> > button......? Its still only one button for either on or off,
which
> > would send the appropriate IR and X10 commands, based on it
> > transmitting
> > X10...... But is a "New" button to press instead of the
one on the
> > remote.......
> >
> > This is getting pretty tricky....! :D
>
> Indeed, particularly as in this case, I'm actually thinking of the
main TV
> downstairs :)
>
> > Hehehehhehehehe.... You should've heard mine the first time she
found
> > some areas of the kitchen outside the range of PIR, which she
> > wanted to
> > be in for over the timeout period.... Eek! Hence the reason I
> > now have a
> > "Keep kitchen lights on no matter what" override
function! :D
>
> If only my pronto had a 'Keep SWMBO quite & accepting of the
quaint
little
> oddities of X10 no matter what' override :-D
>
>
> Tony
>
>
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